Junior Business Analyst

Role: Junior Business Analyst

Location: London

Contract: Permanent

The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK, publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 170m unique users digitally every month. Its exclusives set the news agenda and its campaigns have changed the lives of many. Delivering news, entertainment, and sports coverage to millions of readers every day. With a rich history spanning decades, we are dedicated to providing accurate, insightful, and engaging content across print and digital platforms.

The Sun has a mass-market audience and aims to appeal to a diverse audience in the UK and beyond.

Team: The Sun comprises digital product teams that support the development and enhancement of The Sun Website, The Sun Mobile App, and Sun Membership. It’s an exciting time for us as we align workstreams to be more innovative and audience-focused.

The Sun websites and apps are critical to the continued success of the brand. We are an agile, cross-functional programme, working together to meet the needs of the business and our customers by improving the user experience, underlying platform, and operational tools for teams.

Role: We are looking for a Business Analyst to join The Sun team and work closely with Product and Technology teams to translate product visions into requirements and solutions that can be successfully delivered. This role is integral to enhancing our platforms and product offerings for our valued consumers.

As a Business Analyst, you will be at the heart of our most exciting initiatives, ensuring alignment between business goals and technical implementations.

Day to day you will:

• Work within an Agile product team comprising engineering (including QA), product management, project management, UX&D, and data science disciplines.
• Engage in business analysis activities to develop and improve widely recognised media products that support both immediate and long-term business needs.
• Partner with Product Managers to ensure backlogs are of high quality, with clear content, visibility, and an understanding of business value.
• Perform in-depth analysis on prioritised initiatives, breaking them down into well-defined epics and user stories with clearly outlined business value.
• Coach development teams on structuring and formatting quality requirements and stories, promoting self-sufficiency and avoiding acting as a translator or scribe.
• Ensure feedback is provided to teams and business stakeholders on the value created when stories are delivered.
• Actively research best practices and strategic directions within the industry, sharing insights with the team.
• Contribute to and maintain high standards of business analysis practices.

What we are looking for in you:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst, spanning from supporting product discoveries to delivery.
• Ability to elicit requirements through various techniques (e.g., workshops, interviews, shadowing) and create comprehensive documentation, including functional specifications, user stories, and use cases.
• Experience facilitating conversations to scope, outline potential solutions, and prioritise options based on business value or required outcomes.
• Experience in mobile app development and familiarity with leading App Stores is highly desirable.
• Encourage and establish efficient and effective ways of working across stakeholders (including third parties, where applicable) to ensure clear accountabilities and a shared understanding of opportunities and next steps.
• Maintain a positive attitude and contribute towards creating a collaborative, open, and trusted working environment.
• Comfortable managing your own and the team’s workload in response to changing business requirements and priorities, while maintaining focus on the business strategy and cost of delay.
• A believer in continuous improvement, always looking for ways to enhance processes and outcomes.

If you believe you have the skills and passion to succeed, even if you don’t meet every requirement on the list, we encourage you to apply. We value potential just as much as experience and are eager to hear from individuals who are enthusiastic about learning and growing with us.

At News UK, we know the value of working together, which is why we operate a hybrid working policy with a minimum of three days a week in the office. Being in the office allows us to collaborate, innovate, and thrive as a team in our vibrant and dynamic workspace. Some roles may require more office-based days depending on the nature of the position, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter to learn more about what’s required for your role.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

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